Swim, cycle, skate, play an instrument... These are all things people generally learn to do as a kid and require parents buying the equipment and/or access for you. A lot of poorer people can't swim because they have no place to learn how, and you can't do the others in you don't have equipment.

You were fortunate to grow up with such a helpful community center and people willing to donate an instrument to you, and a library you had access to. That's more than many.

How heartless of the sheriff's office. They simply do not care that their dog, unsupervised and unrestrained, attacked a 2yr old and her dad. Disgusting

Because its not just time. Kids have a lot of time, and sometimes poor adults have a lot of time too when they can't find a job or they are disabled. The things OP mentioned require money for equipment or access. Can't learn to swim when nobody around you has a pool and there's no public pool around. You can't learn to ride a bike if you don't have one.

It's nice you live someplace that demonstrates so much care for those in need. Easy to argue it's not even the bare minimum but it's still much, much more than other communities. Do mind sharing the area you live?

For baking or for putting a bun in the oven?

I bought one of those flashlights with a built-in taser thing at the end. Thought I'd give one to each of my 4 girls if they were effective, but that of course meant I'd have to try it out. When activated it was definitely intimidating to see and hear. When I did it to myself I was quite disappointed however. It hurt but wasn't debilitating. It'd likely just piss your attacker off.

Even people around here I'd interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves.

Or, I don't know... maybe you're the problem.

Remarkable how ignorant of their own bible the teetotalling Christians are. Without refrigeration grape juice becomes unsafe to drink quickly. Fermenting it was the only way it would keep. Also in 1 Tim 3:8 mentions to not have men as deacons if they're "addicted to much wine", clearly showing this was not grape juice they're talking about.

"equate" is the correct word but we still knew what they meant.

Just because you can injest something safely doesn't mean it's safe to inject. Your stomach acid and enzymes kill many pathogens in low concentrations so the fact that you can't safely inject tap water doesn't necessarily reflect badly on the water.

Additionally I'm sure the water facet used to get the tap water wasn't sterilized either. You wouldn't want to touch a syringe to your water spigot before using it I'm sure, let alone inject the unsterilized water from it.

What is legal and what is moral aren't always the same. Exporting him is absolutely immoral.

43 years of his life lost due to a wrongful conviction and instead of trying assist him after he's suffered tragically due to the state's failure, the state is making him disappear. Those 43 years vastly overpaid any "debt" he had to society for his drug conviction. Have compassion for an old man that's suffered such unrecoverable loss.

Hero is too strong a word. It took far too long for him to tell anyone what happened and he hasn't once called out Trump for being a traitor or trying to overthrow our democracy. During the Republican debates this year he agreed he'd endorse the Republican candidate regardless of who it was, including Trump.

Pence could have been a hero but he's tried too hard to stay in the middle and not offend the MAGAts when we've really needed the truth.

I suspect i might be the winner here. My friend had an alley behind his house along with a nice strip of open land near a busy road. Eventually a strip mall was built and then another large commercial building started to go up. Being basically behind my friends house we walked over to this new building on weekend to check out the construction site.

The building was being built with cement block and had lots of scaffolding and yet-unused block scattered around. I found a pipe-bender - a very heavy tool made out of high quality steel - and found you could just tap on of these cement blocks and it would shatter to pieces. I was fascinated, as were my friends. I have no idea how many cement blocks we destroyed over the next couple of days, but it was a huge number. Then we decided to see if we could go through a wall with the pipe bender... we could indeed, making a hole in the side of the building we could walk through. Looking around we eventually realized what we'd done was awful.... we had decimated this construction site. We finally slinked away and come Monday when the crew returned, police were called and neighbors interrogated but thankfully with privacy fences all around, none of the neighbors saw anything. 11 and 12 yr olds are stupid.

Ideally you notice it from the shore and avoid it as others have mentioned. If you're swimming in one you'll realize soon enough you're getting taken out from the shore.

I got caught in one when I was a teenager off Mission Beach in San Diego. I'd already been out swimming in water deeper than I could stand in for a while and, getting tired, started heading to shore. After some time I realized I wasn't making any progress at all. It took me a little while more to realize what was up: I was in a rip current. Thankfully I'd had an elementary school teacher in Phoenix, AZ of all places that taught us kids how to escape one and I remembered - swim parallel to the shore a good distance and then try swimming back in again and check your progress. Repeat as needed if you're unable to make progress. I followed those instructions and eventually was able to get back to shore, utterly exhausted. I can't help but think how lucky I was not to have missed that day of school.

To be fair and accurate, he lied to the country about the seriousness of the outbreak. He's on recording in Feb 2020 flat-out telling Bob Woodward it's going to be bad, it's much more deadly than the flu. At the same time he's publicly calling it a hoax, that its going to go away, like a miracle.

The people that trusted him didn't take it serious because he told them not to, and then accused everyone taking it serious to be fools or intentionally trying to create a panic and steal their liberties. Had he simply allowed the scientists and the CDC to speak candidly and deferred to them, thousands upon thousands of lives would have been saved.

Honestly they should all refuse to sign it because the bastards should not agree to support the traitor Trump if he wins the nomination.

Don't forget the fear of being blind. One of the ways they often die is accidentally kicking up silt with their flippers. It fills the surrounding water, making it impossible to see and find their way out, and it doesn't settle again until long after their oxygen runs out. And the more you panic, the more you kick up.

Honestly remarkably stupid. His scheme had no way for him to claim plausible deniability. So while he got to gloat a little bit on the way out the door, he's suffering far worse consequences than just being out of a job and I'm sure the legal fees he's paying are ridiculous too.

Also company would have suffered the same fate if he died also. So even if he got promoted and the company treated him well, the company and his coworkers would have suffered if he got hit by a bus. Dude was a selfish idiot.

He's no dummy. He doesn't want to forfeit his own money if he decides to skip out...